Overview
Tim Ellison is a graduate student in the Carolina-Duke joint Ph.D. program in German Studies.
He holds a B.A., summa cum laude with Distinction, in Literature from Yale University, where he also earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature. At Yale, he was the recipient of the John Hubbard Curtis Prize, E.T. McLaughlin Prize, and the Sholom Herson and Marcia Herson Scholarship, among other distinctions.
He earned an M.Phil. with Distinction in English from the University of Cambridge, where he held a Paul Mellon Fellowship. His dissertation was awarded the Members' English Prize for the best of the year.
He was recently awarded the Ria Stambaugh-Frank Borchard Award from the Carolina-Duke Ph.D. program for achievement in scholarly writing. He was awarded the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award, which honors the "best paper by a graduate student on any topic in German Studies." His paper will be published in German Quarterly in 2023.
He's interested in Romanticism, philosophy of language, tragedy, translation, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and literary theory.
He holds a B.A., summa cum laude with Distinction, in Literature from Yale University, where he also earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature. At Yale, he was the recipient of the John Hubbard Curtis Prize, E.T. McLaughlin Prize, and the Sholom Herson and Marcia Herson Scholarship, among other distinctions.
He earned an M.Phil. with Distinction in English from the University of Cambridge, where he held a Paul Mellon Fellowship. His dissertation was awarded the Members' English Prize for the best of the year.
He was recently awarded the Ria Stambaugh-Frank Borchard Award from the Carolina-Duke Ph.D. program for achievement in scholarly writing. He was awarded the German Quarterly Graduate Student Paper Award, which honors the "best paper by a graduate student on any topic in German Studies." His paper will be published in German Quarterly in 2023.
He's interested in Romanticism, philosophy of language, tragedy, translation, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and literary theory.